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“Fear is the mind-killer”
— Dune
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Hurricane Michael caught a lot of people unprepared. What looked like an uneventful gulf storm turned into a raging monster by the time it made landfall in the Florida panhandle.
Michael missed us completely this year. I never really worried about it because there was so little error in the track and it was a relatively small storm. If we had to leave there were plenty of exits.
On the other hand, last year’s Irma was huge and violent. The track was truly a once-in-a-century kind of thing. It left us with very few options. Irma was bearing down on us in a way that, for the first time in the more then 30 years I’ve lived in and around Gainesville, my wife and I considered boarding up and bugging out.
We boarded up, but ultimately didn’t need to bug out. It was mostly a non-event for us, but it could have been far worse.
But, preparation like that is not something you do at the last minute. It’s not running to the store and buying bottled water and peanut butter to last you through a few days without power.
Preparation is a state of mind. It’s having 90% of the things you need well before the storm is even named. And then all you have to do is go through a short checklist calmly.
It needs to suffuse your entire lifestyle if you are going to put yourself in harm’s way. And living in Florida is the very definition of in harm’s way.
Gold Goats ‘n Guns is all about that state of mind.
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